The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements

Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, and ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. His research focuses primarily on social movements, collective action, and political networks. Publications include The Cement of Civil Society: Studying Networks in Localities (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Social Movements (with Donatella della Porta, Blackwell, 2006), and Social Movements and Networks (co-edited with Doug McAdam, Oxford University Press, 2003), as well as articles in leading journals such as American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology and Social Networks. He was European Editor of Mobilization from 1997-2005 and a board member of INSNA-International Network for Social Network Analysis from 2010-2013.

1. Introduction: The Field of Social Movement Studies ; I. CORE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ; 2. Social Movements in Social Theory ; 3. Social movements in Political Science ; 4. Historical Analysis and Social Movement Research ; 5. Contentious Politics ; 6. New Theoretical Directions from the Study of Gender and Sexuality Movements ; II. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND STRUCTURAL PROCESSES ; 7. Historical Dynamics of Capitalism and Labor Movements ; 8. Demography and Social Movements ; 9. Migration and Social Movements ; 10. Religious Revivalism and Social Movements ; 11. Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Social Movements ; 12. Urban Dynamics and Social Movements ; III. MICRO-DYNAMICS OF CONTENTION ; 13. Motivations to Action ; 14. Networks as Constraints and Opportunities ; 15. Rational action ; 16. Micromobilization and Emotions ; 17. Demobilization and Disengagement in a Life Course Perspective ; IV. HOW MOVEMENTS ORGANIZE ; 18. Social Movements and Organizational Analysis ; 19. Network Approaches and Social Movements ; 20. Social Movement Coalitions ; 21. Movements as Communities ; 22. New Technologies and Social Movements ; 23. Communication in Movements ; 24. Geography and Social Movements ; V. REPERTOIRES OF COLLECTIVE ACTION ; 25. Strategy ; 26. Repertoires of Contention ; 27. Riots ; 28. Political Violence ; 29. Guerrilla and Armed Insurrections ; 30. Civil Resistance ; 31. Consumer Strategies in Social Movements ; 32. Voluntary Action and Social Movements ; VI. CULTURES OF CONTENTION ; 33. Cultural Conflicts and Social Movements ; 34. Narrative and Social Movements ; 35. The Art of Social Movement ; 36. Visuals in Social Movements ; 37. Practice Movements: The Politics of Non-Sovereign Power ; 38. Immanent Accounts: Ethnography, Engagement, and Social Movement Practices ; VII. POLITICAL AND NON-POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS ; 39. Contentious Collective Action and the Evolving Nation-State ; 40. Social Movements and the Multilateral Arena ; 41. 'The Game's Afoot': Social Movements in Authoritarian States ; 42. Repression: The Governance of Domestic Dissent ; 43. Managing Protest: The Political Action Repertoires of Corporations ; 44. Party Systems, Electoral Systems, and Social Movements ; 45. Parties as Social Movements ; 46. Populism, Social Movements, and Popular Subjectivity ; 47. Markets, Business, and Social Movements ; VIII. MOVEMENTS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE ; 48. Welfare Changes and Social Movements ; 49. The Impacts of Environmental Movements ; 50. Is it Social Movements that Construct Human Rights? ; 51. The Conditions for Civil Society Participation in International Decision Making ; 52. Democracy within Movements ; 53. Democratic Innovations ; 54. Revolutions and Regime Changes